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Festival Faculty
& Artists
2023
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Dang Thai Son
Professor, New England Conservatory & Oberlin School of Music
Ursula Oppens
Professor, Mannes College of the New School; Grammy Nominee
Alon Goldstein
Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Amy Gustafson
Director, Gijón International Piano Festival
Douglas Humpherys
Professor, Eastman School of Music
Michael Lewin
Piano Chair, Boston Conservatory at Berklee
Jerome Lowenthal
Professor, The Juilliard School
Charles Abramovic
Piano Chair, Temple University
Pierre van der Westhuizen
Director, Gilmore Piano Festival
Sophia Shuya Liu (guest artist)
Gold Medalist, 2022 Ettlingen International Piano Competition, Germany
2022
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Kathryn Brown
Piano Chair, Cleveland Institute of Music
Bruce Brubaker
Piano Chair, New England Conservatory
Ingrid Clarfield
Piano Chair, Westminster Choir College
Debra Lew Harder
Concert Pianist, Radio Host for the Met Opera
Douglas Humpherys
Professor, Eastman School of Music
Kate Liu
Bronze Medalist, 17th International Chopin Competition in Warsaw
Marina Lomazov
Professor, Eastman School of Music
Louis Scaglione
Music Director, Philadelphia Youth Orchestra
Vera Wilson
Founder, Astral Artists
2021
Charles Abramovic
Piano Chair, Temple University
Sergei Babayan
Concert Pianist, Deutsche Grammophon Artist
Kathryn Brown
Piano Chair, Cleveland Institute of Music
Christopher Elton
Emeritus Professor, Royal Academy of Music, London, UK
Gary Graffman
Former President, Curtis Institute of Music
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Chen Jiang
Piano Chair, Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Joyce Lindorff
Professor, Temple University
Alexander Korsantia
Professor, New England Conservatory of Music
Marina Lomazov
Professor, Eastman School of Music
Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden
Jury, Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition
2020
Kathryn Brown
Piano Chair, Cleveland Institute of Music
William Carr
Professor of Music, Immaculata University
Gary Graffman
Former President, Curtis Institute of Music
Gila Goldstein
Director of Piano Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Jerome Lowenthal
Professor, the Juilliard School
Alexandre Moutouzkine
Professor, Manhattan School of Music
Ursula Oppens
Professor, Mannes Collage of the New School; Grammy Nominee
Mac McClure
Director of Music, National University of Colombia
Jean-Claude Vanden Eynden
Jury, Queen Elizabeth International Piano Competition
Pierre van der Westhuizen
Director, The Gilmore Keyboard Festival
Idith Zvi
Emeritus Director, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition
2019
Gary Graffman
Former President, Curtis Institute of Music
Dang Thai Son
Professor, New England Conservatory of Music & Oberlin Conservatory of Music
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Yekwon Sunwoo
2017 Van Cliburn Gold Medalist
Lydia Artymiw
Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota
Alon Goldstein
Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City
2018
Charles Abramovic
Piano Chair, Temple University
Simone Dinnerstein
Grammy Nominee, Concert Pianist
Gary Graffman
Former President, Curtis Institute of Music
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Jerome Lowenthal
Professor, the Juilliard School
Jonathan Eifert
Founder & Creative Director, Gold Sound Media
Mac McClure
Director of Keyboard Studies, National University of Bogota, Colombia
Matthew Oberstein
Vice President, Opus 3 Artists Management
Pierre van der Westhuizen
Director, The Gilmore Keyboard Festival
2017
Gary Graffman
Former President, Curtis Institute of Music
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Ursula Oppens
Professor, Mannes Collage of the New School; Grammy Nominee
Mira Yevtich
Co-Founder, the Mariinsky International Piano Festival
2016
Charles Abramovic
Piano Chair, Temple University
Alon Goldstein
University of Missouri - Kansas City
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Douglas Humpherys
Professor, Eastman School of Music
Artistic Director, Gina Bachauer International Competition & Eastman International Piano Competition
Margarita Shevchenko
Professor, Michigan State University
2015
Wha Kyung Byun
Professor, New England Conservatory of Music
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Alexandre Moutouzkine
Professor, Manhattan School of Music
HaeSun Paik
Artistic Director, Busan Music Festival
Russell Sherman
Professor, New England Conservatory of Music
Idith Zvi
Emeritus Director, Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Competition
2014
Charles Abramovic
Piano Chair, Temple University
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Jerome Lowenthal
Professor, the Juilliard School
Xiang Zhou(?)
Concert Pianist
2013
Charles Abramovic
Piano Chair, Temple University
Sergei Babayan
Concert Pianist, Deutsche Grammophon Artist
Ching-Yun Hu
Concert Pianist, PYPA Artistic Director
Meng-Chieh Liu
Professor, Curtis Institute of Music